“We live in such a media saturated world that it is important to be able to present something that is authentic,” writes the founder and artistic director of the 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Blair Thomas.
Puppets and cast members of Plexus Polaire's"Moby Dick," part of the 2023 edition of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
Puppets have always been part of our city’s theatrical landscape and we can claim the man who created that wildly popular TV puppet gang, Chicago-born Burr Tillstrom and hisChicago puppet master Blair Thomas is the artistic director and founder of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Thomas lives on a working farm in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He has been a positive force on the local theater scene for decades and came to puppetry as a child growing up in the town of Jacksonville in Alabama. It was a small town, only 12,000 people or so, and, says Thomas, “There was movie theater and so I had to fantasize about the world and confront the boredom. I began making marionettes and putting on shows for friends and neighbors.
There is so much to experience over the coming days — in addition to shows, there will be exhibits, seminars, workshops and, intriguingly, a Wrigley Building pop-up storefront, in which puppets “live” in an imitation grocery store where everything is made of plastic. Having seen a lot of Thomas’ work over the decades and some from that local treasure Hystopolis Puppet Theater, I have come to believe that it’s easy to identify with puppets. They are not tied by the physical or emotional bonds that inhibit even the greatest actors. No matter how they are manipulated — with rods, strings, hands, shadows or bodies — puppets can manage more theatrical pyrotechnics than any actors. They are often able to “say” more than most playwrights can with hundreds of words.
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